US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on June 23 for "Autonomous vehicle accident and emergency response" (Illinois, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,982, issued on June 23, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Autonomous vehicle accident and emergency response" was invented by Brian Mark Fields (Normal, Ill.), Chien Che Huang (Normal, Ill.), Mohamed A. Wazeer (Normal, Ill.), Shawn C. Bennett (Le Roy, Ill.), Steven C. Cielocha (Bloomington, Ill.), Ronny S. Bryant (Bloomington, Ill.), Stephen Kohaus (Bloomington, Ill.), Terry Quakenbush (Normal, Ill.), Richard A. Novak (Bloomington, Ill.), Craig M. Main (Hagerstown, Md.), Weixin Wu (Aurora, Ill.), Torri Wollenschlager (Bloomington, Ill.), Carol Marie Csanda (Normal, Ill.), Stacey Gorsuch (Bloomington, Ill.), Todd Binion (Bloomington, I...